Rune's RELIC system plugs AI compute directly into solar farms, deploying in weeks instead of years — a wager by Spark Capital and other investors that power, not chips, is now the binding constraint on AI's growth.
The Hong Kong-listed GLM developer combined a $2 billion share placement with $3 billion in convertible bonds, its second major raise since July, as Chinese AI labs race to match the capital intensity of their U.S. rivals.
A warrant-linked supply agreement ties Amazon's data-center power needs to Generac's stock, sending shares up as much as 45 percent.
Cornelis Networks unveiled an open networking architecture meant to keep AI chips fed with data instead of idling, betting that data-center operators want an alternative to Nvidia's proprietary fabric.
The round, led by Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins, arrives seven months after Profound's last raise and pushes total funding for the two-year-old company past $335 million.
The company is said to be readying a microphone-and-speaker-only pair of glasses as scrutiny mounts over its camera-equipped Ray-Ban line.
Sam Altman says an OpenAI listing would be an "ill-advised" moment amid AI safety concerns, even as rival Anthropic reportedly prepares a roadshow targeting a $2 trillion valuation.
The upsized two-year loan from about 20 banks comes as SoftBank's stock posts its steepest drop since June and the company preps a New York bond roadshow.
PayTabs Group is acquiring Amazon Payment Services' Middle East and North Africa operations, consolidating a fragmented regional payments market and marking Amazon's exit from a business it inherited through its 2017 purchase of Souq.com.
The tunneling venture's valuation nearly quadrupled since 2022 as UAE-linked investors bankroll an expanded underground transit build-out beyond Dubai Loop.
The chipmaker is in talks to anchor Anthropic's IPO at a roughly $2 trillion valuation, deepening a financial relationship already built on gigawatts of GPU capacity.
The IPO completes the market debut of China's four leading domestic AI-chip startups amid a race to reduce reliance on Nvidia.
The Boston biotech's Series A backs a CTLA-4 antibody licensed from China's Harbour BioMed, betting that treating tumors before surgery beats treating them after.
Talks would value the OpenAI-backed maker of a household humanoid robot at $6 billion, about 40% below the price it sought last year — the latest sign of a reset in embodied-AI valuations.
The Reno-based startup is betting inference chips built around commodity memory, rather than scarce HBM, can challenge Nvidia's grip on the AI hardware market.
The acquisition brings Stilla's autonomous-agent technology in-house as Meta races to turn its year-old Business Agent into a real revenue stream beyond advertising.
The Chinese lab's newest model claims to beat its own flagship on speed and cost, arriving with API price cuts of up to 60% as competition intensifies.
A power-purchase deal with Fortum will let Google draw up to half of the Loviisa nuclear plant's output as the company builds out data centers across Finland.
Diffusion and Lightspeed co-led the round as Harvey's valuation nearly tripled since March, with the legal AI company also disclosing its fourth acquisition of the year.
The companies will co-design custom inference silicon and high-speed optical networking for AWS data centers in a deal that could be worth up to $60 billion.
The New York startup, which uses AI agents to clear insurance and pharmacy hurdles after a doctor writes a prescription, raised $150 million in a Series C led by Bain Capital Ventures.
The Paris startup's Samsung-led round underscores investor appetite for a European alternative to Silicon Valley's AI giants.
The ride-hailing giant is trimming a tenth of its workforce even as revenue grows, betting on driverless partnerships with Waymo, Rivian, Baidu and Pony.ai.
The multiyear Texas agreement puts Nvidia in three roles at once — chip supplier, investor and landlord — reviving circular-financing concerns.
The Series B, led by Delta-v Capital, arrives as HiddenLayer's annual recurring revenue grew more than tenfold and the company pushes further into securing autonomous AI agents.
The wearable health startup's public filing shows revenue up 74%, as it looks to raise as much as $3 billion in one of the year's largest consumer-tech listings.
The filing, at a roughly $50 billion valuation, makes the Beijing startup the latest Chinese AI developer turning to Hong Kong's exchange as U.S. listings stay out of reach.
The transition, effective Dec. 1, hands the Photoshop and Creative Cloud maker to a customer-experience veteran just as Narayen's tenure had grown Adobe's revenue eightfold.
The stock-and-cash tie-up folds LivePerson's enterprise messaging business into SoundHound's OASYS agent platform, five months after the deal was first announced.
The smart ring maker's S-1 shows revenue up 74 percent and 5 million paying members, positioning it as the biggest wearables debut in years.
The WhatsApp-based money-transfer startup's Series C, split between equity and credit, values the Miami company at roughly $1.4 billion as investors keep betting on fintech built for Latin American immigrants.
The $3 billion round, co-led by Atreides Management and Valor Equity Partners with backing from Abu Dhabi's Mubadala, comes as Crusoe explores a near-term IPO and builds out capacity for customers including Microsoft, Meta and OpenAI.
A year after selling out as a $65 specialty six-pack, Taco Bell's Salt & Straw collaboration is going mass-market nationwide, chasing the ghost of the discontinued Choco Taco.
The Israeli-Dutch startup's valuation has more than doubled in under six months, the latest sign investors are still paying up for AI agent platforms that can prove they work inside large companies.
The Beijing AI startup's valuation has jumped from $30 billion to $50 billion in weeks, fueled by its Kimi K3 open-weight model — and it is reportedly in talks to bring that model to Microsoft, Amazon and Google's clouds.
McKinsey's latest global AI survey finds nearly a third of organizations have passed on purchasing software because agentic coding tools let them build it in-house instead — though homegrown tools succeed less often than the vendor products they replace.
Lasso Security says its new CPU-based screening engine can vet AI agent requests in under five milliseconds, letting enterprises drop costly GPU infrastructure from the safety layer.
The Series A extension, co-led by JOIN Capital and Ace Capital Partners, brings HyImpulse's total funding past €125 million as it prepares back-to-back test flights of its suborbital and orbital rockets.
Waymo opened driverless rides in Denver, San Diego and Tampa while Amazon's Zoox began testing in Houston and San Diego, as both companies push to outpace Tesla's robotaxi ambitions.
Andreessen Horowitz and General Catalyst co-led the Series C, tripling the Miami fintech's valuation as it looks beyond cross-border payments for Latino immigrants.
The hardware chief who helped build the iPad and Apple Watch became CEO on September 1, while Cook shifts into a new executive chairman role ahead of Apple's September 9 iPhone event.
The back-to-back raises bring the firm's total new fundraising this year past $16 billion as it doubles down on AI infrastructure and late-stage bets.
The ad business reached the milestone in just 200 days but remains well behind OpenAI's own $2.5 billion target for the year, as the company races to diversify revenue ahead of an expected IPO.
The AI go-to-market platform's valuation has more than doubled in eight months, the fourth step-up in just over a year as investors chase category-leading AI sales tools.
The Series C round, which brings AusperBio's total funding to $360 million, will fund a Phase 3 trial and expansion of its antisense-therapy pipeline.
Sequoia-led funding triples Valar Atomics' valuation to $6 billion as the company races to turn its small modular reactor from a prototype into a factory-built product for power-hungry AI data centers.
The platform that once supplied cheap human labor for machine-learning training is closing September 30, squeezed out by automation and a new wave of dedicated AI-data companies.
The Information reports Nvidia has agreed to acquire the open-source AI hub, a deal that would hand the chipmaker outsized influence over how developers share and deploy AI models — though neither company has confirmed it.
A $1 billion round for a hypersonic-weapons startup and a $2.5 billion valuation for a four-month-old AI assistant show how far investor appetite now stretches beyond software.
The Beijing startup is negotiating for up to 30% of what the three cloud giants would earn hosting its Kimi K3 model, even as U.S. officials weigh sanctions over how the model was built.
Index Ventures and Benchmark backed the year-old personal-agent startup even as its sweeping data permissions and terms of service draw early scrutiny.
Regulators are examining lenders that financed the fund's trades after its assets shrank from about $45 billion to roughly $10 billion in weeks.
The German semiconductor maker is betting that power delivery, not raw compute, is becoming the AI buildout's next bottleneck.
Fasset's $68 million Series C, led by Japan's SBI Group, values the AI-driven stablecoin neobank at $1 billion as it pushes into more countries.
Memory shortages are pushing up the cost of Vera Rubin and Blackwell systems just as Nvidia heads into Wednesday's earnings report.
IDG Capital led the round, valuing XPeng's humanoid-robot business at more than $6.3 billion, with Alibaba and Tencent joining as strategic backers ahead of a planned 2026 production launch.
Astra produced machine-verified proofs for open problems in group theory and geometry for about $2,000 in compute — but the model itself remains under government review before any public release.
Starting Aug. 24, a view registers the instant a video begins playing — but creator earnings still hinge on a stricter, separate metric.
The e-commerce and cloud giant's largest-ever Hong Kong share sale funds its AI buildout but dilutes existing shareholders.
With revenue run rate near $65 billion and a public listing that could value the company close to $2 trillion, Anthropic's prospectus is expected to flag public backlash against AI itself as a risk to future growth.
The AI and data company raised fresh capital just weeks after its last round, pushing its valuation past $190 billion as revenue tops a $7 billion run rate.
The payments giant is absorbing a startup that routes billions of queries across 400 AI models, betting that owning the layer that picks which model runs a request is worth a price five times what investors valued the company at three months ago.
A postmortem published this week traces last Monday's outage to a capacity shortfall in a Central US data center, worsened by a client retry loop tied to Copilot authentication.
The Series B, led by DST Global, arrives eight months after a round that valued the AI video and image platform at $1.3 billion, as investors keep funneling large checks into AI applications.
A newly disclosed warrant lets Alphabet buy nearly 59 million Marvell shares as its purchases of custom AI chips climb — a deal that ties Google's spending directly to Marvell's stock upside.
Amazon says Prime Air will reach nearly 500 U.S. cities and towns by the end of 2026, even as its drone program continues to draw safety scrutiny.
Google can buy up to 58.97 million Marvell shares in a deal that could generate $120 billion in chip revenue through 2033, as Broadcom's grip on Google's custom-silicon business loosens.
The two-year-old startup's Series C, led by Iconiq, values Rillet at $1 billion after it says it doubled recurring revenue in three months and topped 600 customers.
Contract manufacturing prices are climbing as customers spill over from a capacity-constrained TSMC — a turnaround for a Samsung foundry business that has lost money since 2022.
ByteDance and Tencent have taken their first H200 deliveries in months, but the shipments are running far below what Washington's export licenses actually allow.
Jane Street led a $700 million round in the transformer-chip maker just weeks after its prior raise, with the trading firm doubling as Etched's first customer.
The Chinese autonomous-driving firm posted a 691% jump in robotaxi revenue and is racing rival WeRide to lock in international markets before competitors do.
Jane Street led a $700 million round after testing Etched's inference chips in production, betting the young startup can carve out space in a market Nvidia still dominates.
The San Francisco firm's fifth and largest fund will write $1 million to $10 million checks into roughly 50 early-stage companies as it doubles down on what its leaders call human-centered AI.
The San Francisco firm's fifth and largest fund will write $1 million to $10 million checks into roughly 50 early-stage companies as it doubles down on what its leaders call human-centered AI.
The AI dictation startup's $280 million Series B, led by Menlo Ventures, values the company at $2 billion as it pushes into meetings, hardware and new markets.
The chipmaker's upsized stock sale drew about $100 billion in demand as investors bet on its AI foundry turnaround, even as rival Broadcom wobbles on AI financing worries.
Backers of the Claude maker are modeling a valuation that would top SpaceX's record-setting listing, betting on revenue they expect to more than double this year despite clashes with Washington.
The California Public Utilities Commission's approval, with conditions on low-income broadband and network investment, was the final state sign-off needed to create the nation's largest cable operator.
The $6 billion valuation round is among the largest ever for a nuclear-energy startup, as investors bet AI's power hunger will finally unlock capital for next-generation reactors.
Six Wall Street institutions, including BlackRock and Goldman Sachs, will lend against Nvidia chips as collateral, part of an AI capital build-out approaching $1.5 trillion in commitments.
Qwen3.8-27B ships under the Apache 2.0 license, adding image and document understanding to a context window that stretches to roughly one million tokens.
The data and AI company's valuation jumped 42% in six months after investor demand for the round reached roughly $15 billion, far more than it set out to raise.
Creators discovered their streams, clips and chat logs were already being fed into Amazon's generative AI models by default, with no advance notice before the toggle to decline appeared.
The AI chipmaker's revenue fell short of Wall Street estimates even as core and cloud sales kept growing at triple-digit rates, sending shares down sharply a day after Cerebras raised its full-year outlook.
The Pixel 11, 11 Pro and 11 Pro XL bring a faster in-house chip, an overhauled camera system and a higher starting price when they reach stores August 20.
Cognition, maker of the Devin coding agent, is in early talks to raise funding at a valuation more than 50% above the $26 billion mark it set just three months ago.
The tender offer holds OpenAI's valuation at $852 billion, the same mark set in March, as the ChatGPT maker keeps a confidential IPO filing under wraps.
Six of the world's biggest asset managers agreed to help finance data centers and chip plants for Nvidia's customers, treating AI infrastructure as a new investable asset class.
The Series D round values the automated-factory builder near $8 billion as investors keep betting on reshored defense and aerospace production.
Trevor Noah hosts as Google prepares to show off its Tensor G6-powered phones and a new watch tonight, with leaks pointing to steeper prices across the line.
The Galaxy Z Fold8, Z Fold8 Ultra and Z Flip8 give Samsung its widest foldable spread yet, from a $1,899 standard model to a titanium-framed Ultra starting above $2,000.
AgiBot shipped roughly 8,400 humanoid robots in the first half of 2026, a 562 percent jump, as both it and rival Unitree race toward IPOs.
Shares have nearly tripled this year, and Intel is cashing in to fund its foundry build-out and new manufacturing capacity.
Sequoia Capital led the Series B at a $6 billion valuation, tripling the startup's price tag from April as investors bet small modular reactors can meet AI's soaring power demand.
Surging DRAM and NAND costs, driven by AI data-center demand, are forecast to push shipments of sub-$400 phones down more than 22% this year.
The company is negotiating capacity for more than 300,000 next-generation AI chips for 2027 delivery and plans to unveil its Maia 300 this fall, as TSMC's July revenue jumps 45%.
The Taalas acquisition, AMD's third AI deal in nine months, bets that chips built for a single model can beat general-purpose GPUs on inference.
The USDC issuer named 11 financial heavyweights to secure its institutional blockchain ahead of a September 16 mainnet launch, deepening Wall Street's push into tokenized markets.
A critical BTCPay Server vulnerability let attackers hijack and drain Lightning Network nodes running LND, though the platform's standard on-chain wallets were unaffected as a patch went out this week.